FROM EIR DAILY ALERT
President Trump Invites Mexico’s New President López Obrador To Visit in Washington
Dec. 13, 2018 (EIRNS)—In his daily press conference this morning, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO as he is known) reported he had spoken by phone yesterday with President Donald Trump, during which the two discussed a joint program for regional development to deal with the crisis of Central American and Mexican migration which has adversely affected Mexico and created a crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border.
The Mexican President also reported that President Trump had invited him to visit Washington, although he said that it is necessary to first “make progress in advancing the agreement I’m talking about. He invited me and I may possibly go to Washington ... but I think there has to be a reason for it.” AMLO said there had been no discussion of a border wall during the phone conversation.
“We had a very friendly, respectful conversation,” AMLO reported, according to ADNPolitico website.
“We spoke about migration and the possibility of launching an investment program for productive projects, to create jobs in Central American countries and in our country, so people won’t have to migrate.”
On Dec. 10, at the United Nations’ global conference on migration in Marrakesh, Morocco, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced that $30 billion would be invested over the next five years in a “Comprehensive Development Plan” for Central America, according to several Mexican dailies.
The Dec. 11 issue of El Sol de Mexico quoted AMLO saying that he had already sent to Washington the text of a possible trilateral investment agreement among the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the three “Northern Triangle” nations of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The daily also reports that Ebrard continues to hold regular discussions with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on this issue.
